A Woman of Honor Author:Henry Cuyler Bunner General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Original Publisher: James R. Osgood and company Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Short Stories Literary Criticism / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no... more » illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. AN INITIAL INDISCRETION. FAITH rose and stood behind her friend's chair, and leaned over to whisper to her. " Adelaide dear, don't talk in that way. Think how horrible it would be if you really were a -- a widow! " Mrs. Smith assailed Ruthven at once. If she had no chance to flirt with Kent, she could at least ride her little hobby. "/can't see," she said, "what Adelaide has to complain of. She has a most interesting husband. Perhaps he isn't exactly devoted; but then you can't have everything; and he certainly does give her something to think about. If he were my husband, I should have suck fun circumventing him. It's a dramatic excitement, you know, and I do love that sort of thing, if my name is Smith. Indeed, Mr. Ruthven, after my dreadfully commonplace married life, I should really like a husband who would put a little pepper into the matrimonial porridge." " Then I should say, "remarked Ruthven calmly, while his features expressed a mild annoyance atthe frame and cheerful indelicacy of this speech, " it's a thousand pities you hadn't married Bob Swift. Ah -- talk of the -- er -- Mephisto -- " For the door had opened, and a young man appeared ; a well dressed and rather handsome young man. He was not very young; in fact, at the second glance, one felt inclined to withdraw the adjective. There was a certain thinness of the hair, quite noticeable as he stood with his hat off, blinking in th...« less